[TriLUG] need url monitoring + pretty graphs

[Robert Ryals]

Ryan Leathers wrote:

>I'm running several instances or Apache in various locations.  I have tools
>to manage these, but frankly, these are not boss friendly.  I need a
>consolidated view of all my sites in one place, with the simple indicators
>of up/down and response time when I knock on the front door of the site.
>Boss types want this in a browsable or emailable graph with pretty colors.
>
>Can anyone suggest an existing tool that monitors several URLs, reports on
>response time, and draws a pretty graph of results for management types to
>gaze at?
>
>I can imagine scripting this up and using mrtg to display the results, but I
>know this has to have been done many many times before.  Any examples to
>share?
>  
>

This may be overkill but take a look at Big Brother - http://www.bb4.org/